I think that Black wastes time driving the bishop to a square where it will not need the queen's protection.ħ.Nxc3 transposes to somewhat normal Morra. My intention was to play an obscure Morra variant akin to the Danish Gambit. White's score remains such that the line might be considered a poor choice in serious competition. The two most popular Black replies-5.e6 and 5.d6–-both increase the number of reference games. It shows eight games with 5.Nxc3 and a horrid score for White, but entering 5.Nxc3 brings up nearly one thousand games. Stripes,J (1968) - Internet Opponent (1995) However, via the winning player's name, I was able to download a PGN file of all the games from the event from FIDE's website.

The game that caught my interest is not available at 365.com,, or other free game collections online. That program tends to crash, but it does give me access to the ChessBase online database. Against the Morra, that move is quite normal.Īfter winning this short game this morning, I spent some time looking at other Morra games, but between masters, using the ChessBase iOS app on my iPad. However, in the Danish Gambit, Black cannot play e7-e6. In junk chess, that is, the online blitz that I play most days, I often employ a variation of the Morra Gambit that mimics the Danish Gambit. I also have faint recollection of struggling against it in an email game several years later.

The Morra fascinates me because I lost to it in eight moves in a chess tournament twenty years ago. This morning I won a short game employing the Smith-Morra Gambit.

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